Founded in 2004, Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. Moodle.org is the community site where Moodle is made and discussed. Moodle Private Ltd is funded by royalties from a network of Moodle Partner companies. The company’s target market is mainly educational institutions. Headquartered in Perth, Australia the company has more than 10 employees.

Moodle is a software package for producing Internet-based courses and web sites. It is a global development project designed to support a social constructionist framework of education. Moodle is provided freely as Open Source software under the GNU Public License. Organizations are allowed to copy, use and modify Moodle provided that they agree to: provide the source to others; not modify or remove the original license and copyrights, and apply this same license to any derivative work.

The Moodle Partners are a group of service companies guided by the core developers of Moodle. Moodle Partners provide a range of optional commercial services for Moodle users, including fully-serviced Moodle hosting, remote support contracts, custom code development and consulting. Customers range from individual educators up to company training departments and universities.